April 24th, 2011

Easter Day

Daffodil time in the Garden

A few red tulips

Some fading Hellebores

The vibrant peony stalks

and the perennial alyssum  on the verge

of glorious yellow blooms.

Some visitors to the garden...

Still waiting for the hummingbirds and the orioles

their feeders hang in the curly willow with a welcome sign....

Everything has been watered, - the cutch grass has been engaged in a couple of skirmishes

Tomorrow the cloudy skies return

but the garden flourishes despite inclement weather

 and a late and fickle spring.

Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days,

Why the sweet Spring delays,

And where she hides - the dear desire

Of every heart that longs

For bloom, and fragrance, and the ruby fire

of Maple buds along the misty hills

and that immortal call that fills

 the waiting woods with song?

Henry Van Dyke